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The Lowell-Meredith Company captured the collection of all his essays, and the Maxmillian Company got his "Sea Lyrics" and the "Love-cycle," the latter receiving serial publication in the Ladies' Home Companion after the payment of an extortionate price. Martin heaved a sigh of relief when he had disposed of the last manuscript.
There's not one of them who is not degrading, man and woman, all of them animated stomachs guided by the high intellectual and artistic impulses of clams " He broke off suddenly and regarded Martin. Then, with a flash of divination, he saw the situation. The expression on his face turned to wondering horror. "And you wrote that tremendous 'Love-cycle' to her that pale, shrivelled, female thing!"
I retained the pictures and I found their interpretation. That was when I began to do good work, when I wrote 'Adventure, 'Joy, 'The Pot, 'The Wine of Life, 'The Jostling Street, the 'Love-cycle, and the 'Sea Lyrics. I shall write more like them, and better; but I shall do it in my spare time. My feet are on the solid earth, now. Hack-work and income first, masterpieces afterward.
Brissenden departed with the "Love-cycle," and "The Peri and the Pearl," returning next day to greet Martin with: "I want more." Not only did he assure Martin that he was a poet, but Martin learned that Brissenden also was one. He was swept off his feet by the other's work, and astounded that no attempt had been made to publish it.
On a beautiful fall day, a day of similar Indian summer to that which had seen their love declared the year before, Martin read his "Love-cycle" to Ruth. It was in the afternoon, and, as before, they had ridden out to their favorite knoll in the hills.
You will flutter high, but your wings are of the finest gauze, dusted with the fairest pigments. Do not scorch them. But of course you have scorched them already. It required some glorified petticoat to account for that 'Love-cycle, and that's the shame of it." "It glorifies love as well as the petticoat," Martin laughed. "The philosophy of madness," was the retort.
That had been her criticism of his "Love-cycle." She, too, had urged him to get a job. It was true, she refined it to "position," but it meant the same thing, and in his own mind the old nomenclature stuck. He had read her all that he wrote poems, stories, essays "Wiki-Wiki," "The Shame of the Sun," everything.
I hope you never do sell a line to the magazines. Beauty is the only master to serve. Serve her and damn the multitude! Success! What in hell's success if it isn't right there in your Stevenson sonnet, which outranks Henley's 'Apparition, in that 'Love-cycle, in those sea- poems? "It is not in what you succeed in doing that you get your joy, but in the doing of it. You can't tell me. I know it.
But the joy of writing the 'Love-cycle'! The creative joy in its noblest form! That was compensation for everything." Martin did not know that Ruth was unsympathetic concerning the creative joy. She used the phrase it was on her lips he had first heard it.
The many hours he was not with Ruth he devoted to the "Love-cycle," to reading at home, or to the public reading-rooms, where he got more closely in touch with the magazines of the day and the nature of their policy and content. The hours he spent with Ruth were maddening alike in promise and in inconclusiveness.
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